Those who don't pay respect for those who died for their country shouldn't be elected at all.

5:58 pm April 24, 2013

Mao wrote:

Japan, why create more problems?

8:29 pm April 24, 2013

slim wrote:

since WWII, America has gradually lost the manufacture base to produce enough boots, bayonets and beef spam to oocupy Japan again. If Japan rises again for whatever reasons, the US may have no choice but just to wipe out them once for all.

8:47 pm April 24, 2013

Anonymous wrote:

Japan can never be trusted.

2:49 am April 28, 2013

To the Japanese Child who Never Grew Up to be an Adult wrote:

It is to be expected that the Cipangan Island children do not understand the definition of “invasion.” Their earliest inhabitants were (and still are) the Ainu, Paleo-Siberians who ranged well down into at least Central Honshu. They contributed the hairiness that many Japanese exhibit, compared to their neighbors. The first invaders were the Austronesians, who, sailing via the northerly Japan Current, took them from pre-Sinic Taiwan and the northern Philippines. They contributed their vowel-filled musical languages, as well as their batik patterns and cooking in banana leaves (ever wonder why JP restaurants put a plastic leaf on rice? Austronesians boiled or steamed their fish in leaves.) They contributed the everpresent smile that JP’s do when nervous. Then there were the Korean Gaya invaders, you know, the “Yayoi” who suddenly made JP resemble Korean civilization in its shamanistic gods, often king-priests, along with the Tungusic Korean elements. Even today, Gaya’s home region, Gyeongsangnamdo has a dialect pitch resembling JP’s pitch. Next were the invaders from Korean Baekje, who transported their entire kingdom to JP when Shilla took unified Korea. Nihonshoki and Kojiki were written by Baekje scribes – no wonder they speak well of Baekje, as Baekje kings marched on the Yamato Plain and founded, yes, you guessed it: the Imperial line of JP Emperors. They created the same style of pagodas, keyhole tombs (kofun), etc. that existed in their Korean homeland. The JP call Baekje “Kudara.” Kudara is Japano-Korean for “kkeun nara” – literally “big country,” but in actual Korean usage, such as “kkeun jib” it describes a close relationship, more like “mother country.” They gave JP Buddhism, the be-system in governance, and virtually everything that is considered “typically Japanese.” Look at the faces of the JP people and you see Koreans, Filipinos, Ainu, and combinations thereof. But the JP elites refuse to recognize JP’s ancient history. JP is unique. Right. The only islanders in the world that didn’t come from elsewhere. The only modern country that refuses to recognize its parents. This is the root of all their mental problems. Fix this, and JP, KO, and the rest of Asia will be friends.

The coolest part of Kojiki for me is when they describe how the “gods” came to Japan on reed boats from Heaven, and when it was time for their education, the princes “returned to Heaven” on reed boats. This is a tale of the early Korean invading conquerors of the Japanese islands, and how they returned to Korea for advanced civilization, education, and investment by the Baekje monarchs. It reminds me a bit of how the Virginia colonial elites sent their sons to England for their education. It must be remembered that Japan was a great backwater of Asia. They only discovered iron in the 600?s AD, which meant that for at least 800 years the Iron Age Korean seafaring and horseriding kingdoms of Gaya and Baekje had tremendous technological advantages over the Wa island peoples. I call them “peoples” because there was no unified culture. Many JP dialects even today are mutually unintelligible, the result of different mixes of Korean, Ainu and Austronesian. More on this ancient history that the Japanese are too afraid to discuss: See: highwaywriter.com

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